What was the music app that was integrated with #nostr?
Probably my favorite human, AI researcher Josha Bach recently talked here about the conscious mind and the larger one in which it's embedded. This bigger mind, which you might sense as intuition is, he says much more powerful and knows things we don't.
Geology has become fascinating to me. It started with a search for the oldest rock on earth (4 billion years in Canada), then learning about oil production (Bitcoin is going to monetize a lot of stranded hydrocarbons), then about the fascinatingly varied geology of California, and now I'm back to how it pertains to oil. Some quick facts from 2009:
Global oil use: 30 billion barrels of oil per year
World reserves: 830-4200 billion barrels
Total used so sar: 1050 billion barrels
So you can see we may be past peak or may not. I think it's unlikely and from a carbon perspective there's much more coal.
Globally we've had 40 years worth oil proven, a number that has held steady for the last couple decades, so it's like we have more if we want it.
Overall, the tech is very interesting from gravimetry to seismic imaging, but if there's one takeaway oil is going to be with us for many decades. I suspect that if we will get any sort of handle on climate change it'll be through capture tech, or delivering aerosols to the atmosphere, but probably not through the fantasy of coordinated abstinence from hydrocarbon use.
Meanwhile, I can't seem to do anything except in the present.
Haven't been on Nostr or any social media much the past several weeks. What happens is I get really interested, even building things for myself, and then my attention lapses and I look at other stuff. Try as I might, I am not a robot and love to do different things.
What I love so much about Nostr is the novelty, the smallness, how much opportunity there is. I've also enjoyed appearing as a nym, prioritizing opsec vs ego, but isn't it strange that ego still wants to have a say, to become popular in some sense?
Since joining nostr, I've built but not released a pretty decent bot, with a working mailing-list feature, created half a dozen accounts to play around, zapped a fair amount and enjoyed the combination of Snort/Amethyst/Coracle as my new X, then Stacker.news as my new reddit.
Not sure where I'm going but I'm feeling creative energy returning so wanted to write a quick note. Hope you're all doing well. ttyl
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken
It's sad to see Ripple marching on. Hopefully the UK doesn't fall for their bullshit. It was possibly the first mass cryptosecurities scam.
Satoshi's place was a thing. Nostr would be a new twist!
Good for In'n Out for pushing back against neverending mask world. If you're ever near one their burgers are 👩🍳💋
Future Payjoiners unite! Great TFTC pod with Dan Gould about the Payjoin Dev Kit. Helps explain privacy tech like Coinjoins too.
I noticed that Japanese users were quite vibrant with their part of the fediverse. If you're Japanese I would love some insight on how you view social networks especially new or fringe ones.
Wait, are you short Bitcoin? We need to talk.
It's been ridiculous seeing him get dragged in the media. Glad Nostr is here for the real real.
Man the news is so ridiculously repetitive, not to mention dark and histrionic. Took a bit of a break from Nostr but I'm back. I'll have to catch up with the Nostr Report. What's new with you in the last couple weeks?
Great write-up of a one-of-a-kind OG in Bitcoin.
Describe it in detail. It's the least you can do 😅
